Adventure International
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| Industry | Computer game publishing |
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| Fate | Bankrupt |
| Founded | 1978 |
| Defunct | 1985 |
| Headquarters | Longwood, Florida, United States |
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Key people
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Scott Adams, Alexis Adams |
| Products | Adventureland |
| Subsidiaries | Adventure Soft UK |
Adventure International was an American video game publishing company that existed from 1978 until 1985. It was started by Scott and Alexis Adams. Their games were notable for being the first implementation of the adventure genre to run on a microcomputer system. The adventure game concept originally came from Colossal Cave Adventure which ran strictly on large mainframe systems at the time.
After the success of Adams' first text adventure Adventureland other games followed rapidly, with Adventure International (or "AI") releasing about two games a year. Initially the games were drawn from the founders' imaginations, with themes ranging from fantasy to horror and sometimes science fiction. Some of the later games were written by Scott Adams with other collaborators (such as Philip Case).
In 1980, five of the company's games were ported to the Commodore VIC-20. Developer Neil Harris recalled: "[O]ur sales guys could not figure out what they were gonna do with them. 'What are these games? It's all words on the screen! There's no graphics! What kind of a video game doesn't have video?' [laughs] And they became the best-selling cartridges for the VIC-20, period."
Fourteen games later, Adventure International began to release games drawn from film and fiction. The Buckaroo Banzai game was developed with Phillip Case, was based on the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). Other games came from Marvel Comics, Adventure International released three Questprobe games based on the Marvel characters The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, The Human Torch and the Thing.
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